Ok, so I kept reading on the site ( I have posted this elsewhere but need some advice), I kept reading that it was better to keep the fermenter cool so as not to get off flavors. My yeast temp was recommended at 65-73 and I was running around 70-71. I put it in a swamp cooler and brought it down to 65-66 and all the bubbling stopped in the airlock. What should I do now?

do NOTHING!!! when you cool a fermenter the gas and liquid inside contracts. Airlock activity is NOT an indicator for whether or not fermentation is occuring. Take a gravity reading and leave it alone. Take another reading in a couple days and see if it's dropping or if it has reached FG. Don't start shaking it up and all that crud. If you get a stuck fermentation, those are some steps to attempt, but you are FAR FAR away from measures like that.

as it warms up, it'll start bubbling again because the gas and liquid inside will start expanding as the temp climbs. Controlling fermentation temps is a good idea, but if you want to do it, you need a better plan right from the start feel free to ask for help and advice.

as it warms up, it'll start bubbling again because the gas and liquid inside will start expanding as the temp climbs. Controlling fermentation temps is a good idea, but if you want to do it, you need a better plan right from the start feel free to ask for help and advice.

I am definitely learning that and realize that I should have just left it alone.

Try to keep it around 68 or a bit lower, and there's no need to swirl it. I'd wait to take a hydrometer reading until at least Thursday.

edit: I wait at least 9 days until taking my first reading, and I know some on here wait a couple weeks if not 3.

It is right at 68 now after being out of the swamp cooler, I am going to have to work on the ice additions because the room it is in is running around 72 right now and will go up a little in the next couple of days because of the weather, even though that is the coolest room in the house. I had planned on waiting to take a reading until Monday.